Butcher who stabbed blind wife walks free after court heard he could not cope

A 90-year-old retired Smithfield butcher who stabbed his blind wife as she slept because he could not cope with caring for her has been spared jail. Edward Turpin wounded frail Joan Turpin, also 90, at their home in Ringshall Road, Orpington, Kent, last 22 September after more than 60 years of happy marriage. Mrs Turpin said in a video recorded while she was in hospital: ‘He woke me up with the knife in my chest, telling me he couldn’t take…